‎CRANE Walter - Jan VETH ( Dutch translator ) - G.W. DIJSSELHOF (Dutch illustrator )‎
‎Kunst en Samenleving, naar Walter Crane's Claims of Decorative Art, in het Nederlandsch bewerkt door Jan Veth, en vercierd met talrijke vignetten in hout gesneden door G.W. Dijsselhof.‎

‎ Amsterdam, Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel, 1894, , format in-8°, (22,5 x 18 cm), ix pp + 171 pp, printed on high quality paper by Joh. Enschedé Haarlem. Bound in a decorative Art Nouveau publishers binding. Quarter brown leather with matching corners. Gilt decorative strip on front and back cover presenting 5 lobsters surrounded by oysters. The triangular corners also with lobster decorarion. Top edge gilt. The binding was designed by Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof who also designed the endpapers : flying birds in a Batik design-like setting..First edition, binding very good , with hardly any traces of use, gilt decoration still very fresh. Spotless interior.‎

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